While discussing a Minnesota protest, the "Fox and Friends" co-host asked a guest, "Kevin, why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified as a hate group? How much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?"

Her guest, conservative black writer Kevin Jackson, said "Well they should do it, but unfortunately it's being financed by the leftists ... Ironically it's people that have nothing, really no concern at all about black lives."

Hasselbeck, a former co-host on "The View," was discussing the St. Paul protesters' chant of "Fry 'em like bacon! Pigs in a blanket!" — which police took to be a promotion to target them the day after a Texas deputy was shot while pumping gas into his police cruiser. Black Lives Matter organizers said they were not advocating for violence, just equal treatment.

Taking to Twitter Tuesday evening, she defended her inquiries, saying: "My question was NOT my opinion it was for my guest & was @ the St Paul group (NOT entire BLM) calling for cops to be 'fried like bacon."

The comments from Hasselbeck, who first appeared as a contestant on "Survivor," prompted an outpouring of anger, despite her reputation as a conservative.